How do I make automatic white balance adjust?

enfotograf.se wrote on 3/29/2007, 4:29 AM

Hello World,

I made a movie inside an icehockey-arena, when I took a look at the movie it had some blue-color in it.

Is there any way to automatic adjust this in Vegas Movie Studio 7,
so it look a little bit more naturally?

Regards
Anders
www.enfotograf.se

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Tollkuhnator wrote on 4/2/2007, 8:20 PM

Hi Anders,

I don't think you can get automatic color correction with VMS, but if you have the Platinum Edition, you can manually color correct your clips using the Sony Color Corrector FX. (If you don't have Platinum Edition stop reading here because I don't believe it's included with standard VMS.) You can correct either the whole timeline by using a Track FX or individual events using Event FX.

Position the playhead over a representative frame in your project also shows the blue areas that you want to correct, like the ice. To apply a Track FX to the whole timeline, click the little Track FX icon (it looks like a vertical bar with two small circles on both sides) in the track title area to the far left of your video track. To color balance each event, position the playhead in the event on a typical frame and click the Event FX icon that appears at the right side of each event in the timeline.

When the event Plug-In Chooser appears, click "Sony Color Corrector," then "Add" and "OK." The Color Corrector will appear with three color wheels corresponding to shadows, mid-tones, and highlights. Notice that there is an eye dropper with a minus sign to the left of each color wheel. This eye dropper will select a complimentary color that will balance out to a shade of gray when you click in the preview window.

Start by picking the complimentary eye dropper for highlights, and try clicking on the ice. Make sure the ice area is a light gray and not pure white or this won't work. If there are mid-tone areas that you know should be gray, use the complimentary eye dropper for the midtones and click that area. Same thing for the low (or shadow) tones. If you make a mistake and get the wrong balance, double click the white circle in the color wheel and it will jump back to the middle of the wheel and let you try again. You can also manually adjust the color balance by moving the circle cursor inside the color wheel.

If you expand the Color Corrector window, you will find some additional controls below the color wheel for adjusting saturation, contrast, and gamma.

Let us know how if this worked out.